Daqin Engineers

"Why not fertilize?" Shen Bing answered without thinking.

It is common sense to fertilize when fertility is insufficient.

But Shen Bing immediately realized it wasn't that simple.

This is because Xu Ying and others didn't respond much, but Zhang Ge's face was a little smug.

On the other hand, Shen Bing thought that if it could be solved by fertilization, the farmer would not wait until now.

Sure enough, I listened to Xu Ying's answer:

"Master, although fertilization is good, it is far less fertile than cultivated land!"

Shen Bing was taken aback, and after thinking about it, he understood the problem.

It's not that Qin people don't know how to use feces to fertilize, nor do they have no toilets, but often solve them in the wild.

Men go out early and return to work in the fields at night, so they can't run all the way back to the toilet.

This is even more true for the army. When it comes to marching, build a simple toilet at will, and then build another one after the march... As a result, naturally there is not enough farmyard manure when it is farming.

But this is not a problem for Shen Bing.

"You can make fat!" Shen Bing said.

Retting is a simple method of accumulating and making fertilizer commonly used in ancient my country. However, Qin Shi's agricultural production was backward and obviously there was no retting technology.

Xu Yingqi said: "What is fattening?"

Shen Bing replied:

"It is collecting human feces and urine, rotten leaves, animal feces and weeds and other mixed accumulations."

"Seal it with a paste to make it mature, and it will become fat in a few days."

Xu Ying looked at Shen Bing dubiously:

"Is this... really fat?"

Zhang Ge smiled and said:

"Couldn't the worker talk gibberish in a hurry?"

"No one knows whether this fertilizer can increase income."

"If we use this method to farm the fields, two years later, when we find that the harvest is low, who will I call for theory?"

Xu Ying glared at Zhang Ge and said:

"Zhang Ge, don't be rude!"

Zhang Ge pretended to be fair and replied:

"Sir, this matter has something to do with the three counties' ten thousand mu of fertile land."

"If this fertilizer not only has no fertilizer effect but will poison the crops, then there will be no harvest in the land of the three counties..."

Everyone in the seat nodded their heads to express reason.

Although Zhang Ge's remarks are aggressive, they are impossible to refute.

The land cultivated by the farmer is not one-third of his own.

If it's just a few acres of farmland, it doesn't matter if there is no harvest in the coming year.

There is no shortage of children from rich families in the peasant family. For example, Xu Ying has an official position without relying on farming.

The problem is that the peasant farming method is to spread across the three counties and even the whole country. If this is a problem, then you don't know how many people will starve to death or even destroy the country.

Therefore, the farming method introduced by the farmer must be careful and careful, and it will not be easily promoted if it is not effective.

However, Xu was still very interested in how he dealt with Shen Bing.

"I have to be careful when I wait."

"Although the engineer's method cannot solve the immediate problem, we can open up a few fields for experiments."

"If you use this fertilizer to grow better, it won't be too late to promote it."

Everyone nodded and said that it should be so, and Shen Bing also said that there is no problem.

Zhang Ge was proud of this. He held up his head as if he had won a battle and said:

"Therefore, we won't know if it is feasible until next year at the latest."

"But Tuntian is very close."

"If refining is unavailable, but next year you will use up all the fields, then it will be a problem..."

Shen Bing touched his nose and said:

"If refining is not enough, how about using the Daitian method?"

Xu Ying was surprised again and asked:

"What is Daitian Law?"

Shen Bing looked around, saw a scroll of bamboo slips in front of Xu Ying's case, and asked:

"I wonder if I can borrow the bamboo slips from the inner history?"

Xu Ying hurriedly handed the bamboo slips up, saying:

"of course."

Shen Bing spread out the bamboo slips, pointed to the protrusions and joints of the bamboo slips and said:

"I'm waiting for the farmland, as if these bamboo slips are like ditches."

"When sowing, the seeds are planted in the ditch or on the ridge..."

Speaking of Shen Bing, he paused for a while to see the reactions around him.

Seeing that everyone was not dissatisfied, Shen Bing knew that he was right.

He happened to understand ancient farming methods in modern times.

In the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, the relatively backward method of ridge cultivation was used, and in the Han Dynasty, the more advanced method of Daitian was used.

At this time, Shen Bing was talking about the ridge cultivation method being used.

Zhang Ge couldn't wait, he chuckled slightly:

"Takada ditch and low field for ridges, why do the engineers need to tell?"

The so-called "Takata ditch" means that the high fields that lack water are sown in the ditch, so that the seeds can absorb as much water as possible, and the seedlings will be less exposed to sunlight in the low ditch to facilitate growth.

However, "low-field ridges" is the opposite. The low-lying fields will naturally sown the seeds on the higher ridges, which is good for drainage and the plants will grow better when they receive more light.

No wonder Zhang Ge would ridicule.

Qin Shi’s ridge practice has long been enacted as a law to be implemented throughout the country, I am afraid that three-year-old children are familiar with it.

But of course, Shen Bing wanted to say more than this.

He smiled, pointed to the bamboo slips and continued:

"Internal history, now that there are waterwheels and rollovers, Takata doesn't need to worry about water shortage.

"Why don't I wait to sow all the seeds in the ditch?"

"In this way, ridges can be used as ridges next year."

"Such a replacement, isn't it the same as the alternate closure?"

The Daitian method is actually very simple. It is to use the plant itself to require a certain row spacing. The fields between this row spacing are actually closed. You only need to make a mistake when replanting next year.

Xu Ying pondered for a while, then took a breath:

"It's a good ridge to be a furrow and a ridge."

"Why did I wait for such a simple farming method for a hundred years but never thought of it?"

"In this way...just a little longer the row spacing, all the cultivated land does not need to be closed."

"These methods are great, the teachers are great!"

"Wonderful, wonderful!"

Everyone in the seat nodded in praise after hearing this.

But only Zhang Ge remained stern:

"Sir, this generation of farming law cannot be done lightly, if it affects next year's harvest..."

Xu Ying interrupted him before he could finish.

"Hey, General Wang Jian has already ordered me to wait for all the three counties."

"Since this is the case, why not try this generation of Tianfa?"

Xu Ying is right. Since the fact is that all the fields have to be farmed out, there is no big difference between the ridge cultivation method or the generation field method.

The Daitian method is just a little more spaced off, and everything else is the same.

What can go wrong?

Collect less food?

If this method is feasible in the future, all arable land will not need to be closed, then it is not known how much grain production can be increased.

Thinking of these Zhang Ge, there was nothing to say, his face was green and red, very embarrassed.

Xu Ying arched his hands to Shen Bing with great admiration:

"The old man is only a master craftsman, and he doesn't want to farm land to do so."

"With the talents of workers and teachers, wouldn't it be violent to not enter my farmhouse?"

"I don't know the engineer..."

Shen Bing frowned immediately, why did he come again?!